A vegetable garden is a smart move on your part. Growing your favorites from your own plot will provide your family with great tasting, healthy food. Once you know a few basics you will be free from eating that pretty, expensive cardboard from supermarkets that they have the audacity to call fresh. All the tastiest, healthiest food will be yours for the taking with these secrets.

Vegetable Garden

Be the envy of your friends from the first bite to the last. If you have that yearning to return to your roots and grow some great salads then you’ve come to the right place.

Dirt Licker

I’m proud to say I’m a Dirt Licker and you can be one also. I love dirt and have since I was a wee toddler. Playing in the dirt is one of the best things you can do to relax from our modern day high stress life. That sweet smell of freshly turned dirt is a fantastic smell. Once after coming in from outside, my wife told me to clean the dirt I had missed off my hand and I just licked the spot and it was gone. Now I’m a Dirt Licker and proud of it. I might have to make a poem about dirt. {Some people call it Soil, but hey you Aren’t One of Those are you?}

Some people think you need special training to grow plants and nothing could be further from the truth. Sure you can get as involved as you want and use all the latest technical gadgets there are.

But truthfully, all you need is a container, seed, soil, water, sunlight. A little knowledge added to this will allow you to grow great vegetables that taste great and are healthy.

I am trying to provide you with the most basic of information on how to grow the greatest, tastiest plants you can imagine in your very own backyard. Constantly researching how to better grow things is one of my passions.

If you have any questions, please shoot me an and I’ll try to find the answer for you.

Bring your family in and make this a group affair. Kids love to ‘work’ in the dirt. Giving them their own little place to plant their favorites is a great way to get them involved.

Watch the smile on their face as they first eat what they’ve grown themselves. Once you taste how great your first harvest is compared to that crap you buy in the supermarket and you’ll be hooked.

Vegetable Garden Planning

Old Vegetable Gardener

Like most things in life, you need a plan to truly succeed. It is not hard to plan it out at all. Just a piece of paper and pencil will work fine.

Of course there is quite a few software programs that will complicate your life if that is what you want. Some of them are decent enough. Throwing plants into the ground haphazardly is one way some people plant. But just drawing down what you want to plant and where you want to put it will help tremendously.

As you write down what to plant, you’ll be thinking of the different supplies and problems you’ll face and will be able to much better solve them beforehand. Plus take a look at all your plants and see if you can rearrange them so their buddies or companions can help some.

The factor that is the hardest on most people is the amount of sunlight they can get at their chosen location. To grow, about 6 – 8 hours of sunlight is needed by plants. And you can use some sort of lighting system if you are in an apartment if you want. Once you can solve this problem, the rest of garden tasks comes together easily.
Vegetable Garden Planning

Gardening Soil

This is the most important part of growing great vegetables and the first secret. Using some or all of the techniques you see on this web site is almost guaranteeing that you’ll have a great crop.

Using manure, compost, worms and even left-over grass clippings will help you to grow vegetables that taste fantastic. With good soil, you can skimp on some of the other stuff and still have a good crop in your plot.
Gardening Soil

Garden Watering

Using sprinklers is bad, bad. Learn how to properly water your vegetables using drip irrigation or self-watering containers to put watering on semi-automatic. More plants die of over-watering then all other accidents combined!

Garden Watering

Vegetable Gardening

I’ve researched a ton of material on vegetable gardening and practice what I have found that works. I point out what doesn’t work also.

Vegetable Gardening

Vegetable Garden Planting

People have different ideas on how to plant and maintain them. Just because your neighbor grows great tomatoes using one technique doesn’t necessarily mean that you can duplicate his results. He may tell you what he is doing, but leaving out one small detail. And the devil can be in the details.
Vegetable Garden Planting

Story Time

I remember years ago, a friend of mine always had the biggest, tasty cucumbers you could imagine. We talked quite a lot and he told me all the things he knew but I just couldn’t duplicate his results.
Finally one spring day as I was helping him, he planted some cucumbers and as I helped I saw that he was dumping some commercial fertilizer in the bottom of the hole he had dug to put his plants in and covered the fertilizer up with about an inch of soil. He then put his plant in it and packed the soil around it.
This was something I had not been doing. When I asked him about it, he told me that he always did that and as soon as it started growing roots and they reached the fertilizer, the plant would take off. Well this was something that he had not ever told me after several years. He thought he had told me, but I don’t remember it. Now my cucumbers grow as big and tasty as his as I started doing this.

Vegetable Garden Plants

Write down your favorite vegetables and then start researching which ones you think you can grow. Keep your garden simple. The more simple something is, the more enjoyable it is. Tomatoes are the most grown vegetable in the world and there is a ton of information on the internet about how to grow them. They are really easy to grow.

A five gallon container and you can get growing your own. Radishes are another really easy to grow plant plus they mature in 30 – 45 days. Try them and you’ll see how easy this stuff is. Most any plant you can buy at your local nursery or super warehouse that you transplant will be easy to grow. They don’t like to hear from their customers that you bought a plant and it died.
Vegetable Garden Plants

Vegetable Garden Gifts

I’ve had some nice gifts given to me for vegetable gardening. This page will show some of them to you. It is always real nice when I get a gift that saves me time or trouble. Anything to help with labor saving is a fantastic deal to any vegetable gardener.
Vegetable Garden Gifts

Vegetable Recipes

You’ll find some of my most liked recipes on this page. These may delight you. I know I like them. If you have any suggestions, please let me know. I love to try new stuff.
Vegetable Recipes

By keeping it simple and elegant, you can have your very own sanctum away from the high stresses that we live in in this day and age. My wife is amazed at how much I enjoy working outside after a day at the office. Having a high stress job, means the simple joys of gardening do wonders for my temperament, no matter how sweaty and tired I get. It’s that good tiredness that I like.

Start small and do not try to do too much if this is your first attempt at vegetable gardening. You can get over-whelmed with trying to manage a big plot during your first season. You are not trying to win a race or competition, just grow some food. Pay attention to what is working and what is not.

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Just-John